Author Note(Neko): S-sorry for the late update… b-but I had my own reasons! You see… I just nearly broke my neck recently… a-and also… I kinda injured my hands… =_=" *point at the bandages on the ground* It is kinda troublesome since I had to change the bandage once in a while… ==" So… my speed of typing sort of slowed down… Anyway~ please enjoy this chapter 8 that had OOC-ness badass Kyoko fighting and some romantic 189669 scene!


Chapter #8- Don't Touch Our Ladies

"Mukuro-sama…" Her violet looked at him weakly as she gripped his jacket tighter, begging him not to go. The bluenette looked back at the sick girl that lay on the bed; his mix-matched orbs lookeing at her worriedly as he ran his fingers on her wet purple locks.

"Mukuro-sama…" the two other boys behind him called, reminding him that they should go before they were caught. Mukuro gently pulled her hand away from his jacket, without turning his head to look at her for the one last time, he started to make his way to the door where the other two teens are waiting for him.

"Mukuro-sama…don't… go…" he heared her pleaded for him once again. The tears that were running down from her violet...it hurts him like a bullet that pierced through his heart. He doesn't know why he felt so hurt for abandoning her. He had grown up in a world filled with darkness that light can't even reach. He had grown up to think that humans are mere tools and puppets… so why did he felt this way when he was just throwing away the tool that is no longer of use to him?

"Mukuro-sama… please… d-don't… leave… me…" her weak pleadings echoed in his ears like a voice recorder.

Why did he care so much for her? Why did he felt so hurt when he was just throwing away a useless tool away? What did he felt like turning around and told her that he will never leave her? Why? Why?

The only person he'd trust his whole life was no one else but himself. He doesn't need to care for a tool...a puppet he had no more use for. But this feeling… he felt like he had just lost something very opened his mouth, only to bit his lips as he couldn't found his voice.

What should he even say to her?

So without a single farewell, he stomped out from the room quickly with Ken and Chikusa who glanced back at Chrome worriedly before following the illusionist.

'She is no longer useful to me.' he thought to himself deep inside, grabbing his luggage nearby and continuing to walk away without looking back at the room. 'She doesn't mean anything, she is just a tool.' He kept screaming in his mind, telling himself that he don't care about her, he wasn't worried that she might die from the illness and she is not important to him.

But why did he flipped open his phone and started to dial a very familiar phone number?

'Who the hell dares to woke me up from my sleep, you ignorant herbivore?' a murderous, stern and cold voice muttered tiredly and dangerously. Ah…why did he even call that fighting maniac anyway?

"Kufufufufufufu~ Hibari Kyoya, come to Kokuyo High School right now if you want to have a fight with me."

He knew that skylark will come, he WILL. After all, that idiotic prefect had been craving to bite him to death. He also knew that icy-cold Japanese had a soft side over cute things and…his Chrome. Ah, it's not so hard to notice that. The cloud guardian would often glanced back to look at her whenever she walked past him.

"I believe that you can take good care of her, Hibari Kyoya…" he muttered softly to himself as he ended the call. At least now, when he had abandoned her, she will find a new home...someone else to support her and give her the happiness she deserved.

"Sayonara (Goodbye), my dear Chrome…"


Mukuro's mix-matched ruby red and sapphire blue eyes flickered open as he groaned. Ah… isn't that some very unnecessary memories he had just dreamt about? The sad memories of him abandoning his poor, sick Chrome to the… the… well, why the hell did he even asked that damn skylark to take care his Nagi at that time anyway?

"I was just about to toss your corpse down the river if you waste another second sleeping, pineapple-head." He slightly twitched his eyebrows at the nickname and turned around, ready to kill the person who dares to insult his unique hairstyle when his eyes met with a green colored bat that hit him hard on his head. The pineapple head clutched his injured head and groaned on the ground as he curled up to a ball.

"R-Reborn-kun! Please stop! Mukuro-kun had just recovered from his injuries!" he heard the Vongola Decimo's fiancée spoke worriedly to a tall man dressed in a suit. He blinked twice as he rubbed his head in pain. For the first time ever...he almost pitied the decimo for having a spartan of a tutor...almost.

'Kufu? Is this the tutor of Sawada Tsunayoshi? The sun Arcobaleno that had made that tuna of a mafia boss to the infamous Vongola Decimo he is now?'

The hitman seemed to read the illusionist's mind as he flicked his fedora and smirked. "Ah yes, you're right, stupid pineapple. I'm was the cutest and most innocent baby ten years ago...and the current hottest and number one hitman now."

'Cute and innocent my ass!' he screamed in his mind. He could never forget how that ex-Arcobaleno had injured his Chrome during the Arcobaleno Trials. Fufufufufu~ and HOW DARE HE KEPT INSULTING HIM?!

"Hey, don't think that I can't read your mind." The world greatest himan muttered as he placed a hand in his pocket and slamed his bat-shaped Leon on Mukuro's head once again with the other.

Mukuro groaned in pain as his handsome (self-praising) face meet the hard, rocky ground once again. He balled his hands to fists in anger as a vein popped at the back of his head.

"Kufufufufufufu~ I'm seriously going to kill you, you damn ex-Arcobaleno!" Mukuro yelled out in anger as he stood up, a metallic trident forming on his hand. Just then, he heard some foot stepping and an angelic voice called.

"Reborn-san, is something wrong? I heard screaming and-"

A purple head walked into the cave and she immediately glared at her ex-master when she saw him pointing the dangerous and sharp trident at the innocent-faced world greatest hitman who didn't take out his gun but just crossed his arms and looked back at the pineapple head plainly.

"I told you a hundred times before NOT. TO. START. A. FIGHT. WITH. ANYONE! PER. NON. INIZIARE. UNA. LOTTA. CON. NESSUNO! Don't you understand Italian and Japanese?!" She yelled out angrily as she whacked his head continuously with illusion pots and pineapples.

The spartan tutor smirked from behind while Kyoko could only sweat-dropped at the scene. She was starting to pity Mukuro who fell for Reborn's cunning trick just like her fiancé did countless of times before...

"Kyoko." The orange head turned her head to look at the ex-Arcobaleno who suddenly had a very serious look.

"Come, we can just leave the two of them here, I have something to give you." Reborn muttered loud enough for the orangenette who stood next to him to hear. Kyoko, being her dense self, nodded before following the hitman behind while silently praying that Chrome won't kill Mukuro…


For the first time in Mukuro Rokudo's life, he believed in luck. If it wasn't the right-hand man's girlfriend who came back just in time before his dear Chrome could kill him, he thought that he might have to return from the cycle of hell once again...

"Here you go, Mukuro-san. This is the fresh clothes that we got from Reborn-san." The short haired girl handed him the pile of clean clothes. He let out a tired sigh; his head still won't stop ringing from the constant abuse. Without any hesitation, he ripped the worn and dirtied dress shirt he had been wearing since yesterday and grabbed the new clothes.

Chrome slightly blushed when she saw how well-built and muscular Mukuro is. Oh god, he had abs. It's the first time she had seen him half-naked after all. However, the deep scars that marked his back kind of shocked her. Where did he get those horrible scars? She can't help but start to wonder what kind of dangers he had been through all these years… you can't blame the purplenette for that. No matter how much she had changed, she is still the caring and kind Chrome deep inside.

Hibari slightly twitched his brows in annoyance when he saw the female illusionist staring at Mukuro… or more clearly, his chest. Well, he had to admit that the male illusionist is very muscular and then scars behind his back make him looked very cool. But, he is not going to let Chrome drool over him…

"Chrome." Hibari called in a deep, sexy tone. The purplenette turned back to look at him, blinking her eyes when suddenly the skylark loosened the purple tie around the collar of the dark purple dress shirt with a charming smirk on his face that will make any girls squeal at his sexiness.

Chrome could felt herself start to blush madly when Hibari start to unbuttoned his dress shirt, showing off his well-built and six packed abs that won't lose to Mukuro's. He had to hide his playful smirk when he caught the pineapple head glaring at him. Ah… you just don't know how much the cloud guardian enjoy seeing the male mist guardian having that jealous look on his face…

The ex-prefect clicked his tongue as he gently caressing the blushing purplenette's cheek, while smirking when he saw Mukuro raising his trident, ready to kill him off. He knows that the next sentence that came out from his mouth will have the illusionist trying to send him to hell. "Why are you blushing, Chrome? Am I really that sexy? Tsk, tsk, tsk, what a naughty herbivore you are..."

That's it. It took all that Mukuro could had not to kill the skylark who was flirting with his Chrome. He slammed his trident hard at the ground and a pillar of fire appeared under Hibari's feet while the angry pineapple was of course, taking extra care not to hurt his beloved Chrome.

"Kufufufufufu~" Mukuro chuckled darkly, killing aura spreading around him as he pointed his trident at the cloud guardian. "What do you think you're doing to my Chrome, Hibari Kyoya?" he had a friendly smile on his face, but the killing aura around him didn't fade away and Hibari's smirk widened as he grabbed his tonfas nearby. This will be a good warming up.

SLAM!

Chrome tilts her head a bit while smiling sweetly… actually, too sweetly, to the two guardians, her trident make a huge crack on the hard ground as dark aura started to emit from the female illusionist.

"The two of you..." the cloud and mist guardians flinched as they shivered at the dangerously sweet voice used by the purplenette. A few rolls of bandages suddenly formed around Chrome as she glared at them murderously. "HOW. MANY. TIMES. MUST. I. TOLD. YOU. TWO. TO. STOP. FIGHTING. YOU PERVERTS?!"

The bandages start to rushed towards the two strongest guardians and in another ten minutes, the poor boys were bandaged into mummies once again while Chrome stomped away with her face blushing in fuming red, either from anger or embarrassment of being tricked around by the two sexy beasts.


Reborn was quite amused when he found the two male guardians being bandaged into mummies when he was back. Haru just stared at the two with a sweat-drop formed at the back of her head while Chrome was fixing her suit shirt while ignoring the 'Mppff fmpf mphhef!'(Release me herbivore!) and 'Kumpfumpfufu...Mph Fmph Fmmf Mffhp! (Kufufufu...I can't BREATHE!)' from the two guardians.

"Chrome, before we leave to attack the Pescha family...can you let the two of them go? I promise that you can do whatever you like to them when we return back to the mansion." Reborn slightly smirked when the two mummies-like guardians glared at him from under the bandages.

Chrome hesitated for a moment before she nodded her head and snap her finger. The real illusion immediately disappeared as the two boys gasped, trying to inhale as many oxygen as they could. God knows how they could survive last night with the bandages that had tightly coiled them like a snake.

The purplenette put on her boots when she notices Kyoko who had a troubled look on her face. Chrome started to become worried when she saw her biting her lips.

"Kyoko-chan, are you alright?" The purplenette asked her. The orange head quickly turned her head to her two best friends as she forced a smile on her face.

"I-I'm fine! Don't worry, Chrome-chan and Haru-chan."

It only made Chrome and Haru to worry even more when they heard their friends' voice trembled.

Once Kyoko noticed her friends had all walked out from the cave, her smile faded away as she stared down at the necklace around her neck with two rings hanging from it. She unconsciously tightens her grip around the ring as her hand started to tremble once again.

'Can I successfully do it...Tsu-kun?'


"J-Jyudaime… you should stop right now. If you continue doing that, you'll just end up injuring your head…" Gokudera said worriedly as his boss hit his head against the hard metallic cage continuously, a dark aura emitting around him as all his guardians stayed as far as they could away from their boss. Their hands were cuffed with a metal that seemed to drain their flame if he were to use it.

"Gokudera-kun…" Tsuna murmured in a dead voice, looking at his right-hand man with no emotions written on his face.

"I-I have this feeling that something bad is going to happen sooner or later! I can't waste my time getting locked up here when something could've happened to Kyoko-chan and the others!"

The other guardians could only frowned and lowered their heads. Every one of them had wished deep inside their heart that Kyoko and Haru won't come back to save them…no, they believe the girls are strong, but no one want their most beloved sister, lovers, big sisters or friends to be injured just to save them, right?

"I seriously hope that Hibari-san and Mukuro won't bring them along if they're coming here…" Tsuna whispered as he stared up on the white ceiling. The decimo balled his hands to fists as he bit his lips worriedly.

'Kyoko-chan, please don't come, please…' he begged in his heart, wishing that the orange head could hear her somehow.

'Their main target is you, Kyoko. They didn't kidnap us for no reason… they want to kill you.'


An hour after walking around the forest, searching for their way, the group finally reached the basement of the Pescha family. Reborn turn his head towards the two male guardians, who were currently having a glaring contest as both their hands were twitching to grab their weapon and attack each other.

"Oi, pineapple head and Hibari." The two guardians turn around to face the ex-arcobaleno with Mukuro who twitched his eyebrow with the nickname Reborn gave to him. "There might be enemies coming out to ambush us sooner or later. I want you two to buy us some time and distract the enemies while we save Dame-Tsuna and the others."

The two rivals were about to protest on how much they don't want to stay with their rivals for even a minute when they saw the look that Reborn shot at them… although he is smiling so innocently to them, although his face didn't have the word 'Do it or die' bolted on it or even have a gun pointed at them… the aura emitting around the world greatest hitman is enough to make them shut up.

Before a word could slip out from the two guardians, Reborn suddenly shot his gun towards the bushes as he pushed Kyoko and Haru down. Hibari and Mukuro noticed the bullets flying towards their most beloved girl who won't be able to dodge it in time and immediately ran towards her using their weapons as a shield to protect her.

"Girls, let's go in now!" the hitman exclaimed as he kicked the nearby door open. Kyoko and Haru nodded, and immediately grabbed their weapons that had dropped before running into the mansion. Just then, Haru noticed Chrome who is still stunned behind the two boys who had protected her.

"Chrome-chan! Let's go!" Haru's voice broke Chrome from her own though. She nodded her head to her friends and quickly stood up, her trident in her hands as she ran towards the entrance while her violet orbs never leaft the two guardians.

"K-Kyoya, pineapple head!" she called out. Mukuro slightly twitched at the nickname called by the purplenette towards him, but decided to let it go this time when he noticed the worried expression shown in her violets.

'Please be safe.' She mouthed her words out for the both of them before she ran inside with the others.

Some of the enemies immediately run towards the door, but were stopped by the two strongest Vongola mist and cloud guardians who point their weapons at them dangerously.

"Kufufufufufu~Now who was it who dared to ponint his gun at my dear Chrome?" Mukuro pushed the pointy end of his trident towards the group of his opponents; a red glint came out from his right eye as a single horizontal line could be seen. The kanji of 'one': The Realm of Hell.

"Herbivores…for trying to hurt my property...I will bite you to death." Hibari pulled out both of his tonfas, a killing aura spreading around him. He was already dying to bite someone to death for god-know-how-long.

"The moment you ignorant herbivores/humans being laid your hands on Chrome…" The two boys said in unison, the dark aura emitting around them are screaming 'KILL!'

"For touching the Vongola ladies… especially Chrome Dokuro...considered yourselves dead."

For the first time inmafia history, the pineapple and skylark had finally agreed on something together. And that's killing those who dared to touch the ladies of Vongola. (Or more clearly, it's Chrome)


Tsuna clenched his teeth in anger, times passed by so slowly and he can't help but keep feeling that something bad might happened soon to his fiancée and also friends. Why did his intuition keep acting up? He doesn't know, but all he could do was sit in the cage and waiting for the fighting maniac and pineapple freak to save them.

"Does sitting in the cage bore you, Vongola Decimo?" Calvo asked as he chuckled evilly. He switched on the nearby television as he plop himself on the soft sofa. "Just enjoy the show!"

"Calvo… I swear… when I get out of here… I'll kill you." Tsuna snarled as he glared at the boss of the Pescha family, his eyes glowering with hate and wrath. Calvo laughed out like the evil man he is.

"Calm down, Vongola Decimo. You might enjoy this show! Especially when they found that little fiancée of yours…"

The last sentence make Tsuna paled. Kyoko is coming? Why the hell didn't the two idiotic guardians of his stop her?!

All his panics increased when the screen of the television flashed a mop of orange hair running as fast she could. The guardians felt their guts twisted. The enemies were aiming for Kyoko, Chrome, Haru and...is that Reborn?!

"When the hell did Reborn came back?!" Tsuna exclaimed in fear as he gulped. Okay, now he wished he could die instead of being saved by his fiancée and the other already. He knew that dying from hunger here will at least be better than dying from the wrath of the evil world's greatest hitman who was going to send him to hell since he didn't finish his paperwork…


"This way!" Reborn exclaimed as he kicked one of the oak doors open. Just as they entered, the door slammed close. Every one of them holds their weapons protectively to themselves as they turn into fighting action.

They noticed how the room looked very different from any mafioso's room should be. There are no sharp weapons, no dangerous aura and it looked too pink. Yes, you heard it right. TOO PINK AND TOO GIRLISH TO BE A MAFIOSO'S ROOM!

"Ara, ara~" a sweet girlish voice said and Kyoko's honey brown orbs sharpen in realization when she finally recognize the voice. Well… who can forget the girl that had freaking clung on your lover in front of you 3 months ago?!

"Isn't it lucky since you came earlier than I expected~?" a figure with long blonde hair tied in a high-pony tail stood up from the English-styled chair she was sitting on. She smiled innocently to them, but the smile didn't make the others loosen the grip on their weapons.

"Ah, signora Kyoko! " the blonde greeted the orange head, and the orangenette tighten her grips around her weapons as the girl walked towards her, she had to be cautious that the blond won't play some tricks on them.

As if reading the Vongola Decimo's fiancée's mind, the girl threw a small bomb in a speed like thunder. The other two girls and Reborn noticed the bomb first as their eyes widened in shock.

"KYOKO-CHAN!" Chrome and Haru exclaimed as they, along with Reborn who only gritted his teeth, immediately pushed the orange head away.

The bomb land in front of the world greatest hitman and the two other girls as green smoke started to surround all of them. Kyoko watched in horror as her friends were stuck in the smoke.

"G-guys!" she exclaimed, she was so scared that she might lose them, just like how she had almost lost Tsuna before. Once the smoke cleared off, she saw her friends were all being stuck in a cage with green thunder flame surrounding around the metallic cages.

"I-I'm coming to save y-" her words were being cut off when a kick came flying towards her. She looked up and saw the blond who smiled evilly at her this time.

"Ah, ah, ah." She said playfully to the orangenette, her index finger moving back and forth. "You won't be able to broke it, Kyoko-chan. Unless you defeat me and only then could this cage be broken."

The blond reached under her vest and Kyoko readied her two guns as she glared at her enemy, watching for any suspicious movement. Maria whipped out two turquoise colored traditional fans before opening it gracefully, if not for the sly smirk appearing on her face that is. The Pescha mafioso lunged forward almost immediately and the two exchange blows as sounds of shooting guns and metal clashing reverberate in the room. The orange head continued to avoid the fans that on closer look, have dangerous spikes pointing out of it. The Pescha mafioso smirked and brought up her fan to cover her face, the bullets blocked effortlessly by the metal. Kyoko narrowed her caramel orbs and gripped tighter on her weapon before firing the bullets at a faster pace. Maria finally lunged forward and aimed for the orange head's neck. The orangenette took the chance to fire her gun at the fan heading for her neck and the blond widened her eyes as her weapons repelled back. Kyoko was about to shoot one last attack on her but the pecha mafioso was quick as she brought her other weapon down towards the orangenette's head. Kyoko immediately crossed her two guns above her head and blocked the attack.

"You don't really think that this is all I've got do you?"

Maria sneered as she pushed her weapons down with force and Kyoko gritted her teeth in return. Her caramels widened when bright, yellow flames appeared on the tips of the spikes. It was the lightning attribute flame. The orangenette jumped back instinctively as the blonde's weapon now sparked with a coat of electricity.

"Hmm...so~ you have quite a good reaction there. If you'd just been a second slower...you might just die from the high voltage." Maria smirked as she brought up her weapon dangerously and rushed forward. Kyoko aimed for her weapon once again but the bullets seemed to soften as it touched the fan.

'No...it's the other way around...'

"It won't work again Kyoko-chan~ lightning flame have the hardening attribute remember?" The blond spoke cheerily as a sweet smile formed on her lips. Maria lunged forward once again and the orangenette had no choice but to block. She was about to move back as before when a gloved hand held her hand in place, the blond grinned slyly as the lightning flame grew brighter on her weapon. Electricity flowed through her weapon and onto the orange head as she screamed from the sudden pain. Kyoko dropped to her knees and onto the cold floor as her weapons rattled on the ground.


"KYOKO!" Tsuna yelled as fear gripped him when he saw his fiancée collapsed on the ground. He used all of his strength and banged on the metallic cage continuously, his eyes not believing what he had just seen… No… she can't die…Kyoko can't die! He still needs her!

Ryohei gritted his teeth in anger when he saw his sister getting injured and collapsed on the hard ground. He immediately stood up, banging the metallic cage along with Tsuna as he ignored the blood that seeped out from his head. He can't lose her… he can't lose her! She is his only sister and nobody could replace her in this world! What could he do if she dies just like that?

"KYOKO! STAND UP TO THE EXTREME! I KNOW YOU'RE STILL ALIVE, RIGHT?!" he yelled out as loud as he could, wishing his voice could be heard by his sister.

Calvo grinned evilly when he saw how the guardians had all paled. Gokudera, Lambo and Yamamoto were too stunned to move or even make a sound.

"How dare you..." Tsuna muttered darkly, the temperature seemed to drop to zero as his voice echoed in the room. He raised his head and orange orbs filled with pure anger glared straight at the Pescha boss, the sky flame flickered on his forehead. Calvo flinched and took a step back as fear came to him.

Those cuffs were supposed to absorb his flame! Not even tens or twenty professional mafioso could ever so much as lit their flames!

"Stop, decimo! Don't you care about what will happen to your dear guardians if you break those cuffs?" The mafia boss tried to reason with the angry mafioso and Tsuna stopped on his tracks. Calvo grinned evilly as he seemed to have caught the decimo's attention.

"Their cuffs were equipped with a special needle soaked in poison that could kill anyone in seconds with a push of this little button here!"

The pescha boss held up a switch box on his hand, his thumb already resting on one of the button. Tsuna widened his orange orbs and turned to look at his guardians. All of them were gazing back at him with determination in their eyes, urging him to ignore the threats and even if it were true...they had already pledge their loyalty and life to him. The guardians would offer their lives at any time for their best friend, brother...their sky. The brunette's lips quivered at the thought and he hesitated for a moment. Tsuna gritted his teeth and shut his eyes before the flame on his forehead disappeared, his orange orbs replaced by chocolate browns. Calvo cackled evilly as his voice roared throughout the room before he looked down at the decimo and pressed on another button. Tsuna snapped his eyes open as electricity coursed through his body and he screamed at pain shot up his body from the previous injuries.

"Tsuna!/Jyuudaime!/Tsuna-nii!/Sawada!"

The guardians called out as their boss fell to the ground, his body weak and hurt. Tsuna weakly turned his head up with half lidded eyes and saw the orange head in the same state as him.

'Kyoko...!'


"Aww...did I kill her already?" The blond pouted as she looked down at the unmoving orange head. The pescha mafioso sighed and was about to turn back when she saw the orange head's hand twitched and slowly moved to grab on her gun. She grinned amusedly and stepped on her hand but the orangenette refused to let go.

"Oh! So you're alive~!" Maria clapped her hands together.


"S-She's moving! She's still alive!" Yamamoto exclaimed, being the first one to recover from his shock when the orange head start to move her hand. Ryohei and Tsuna looked in disbelief as they saw her hand grabbing on the gun. The decimo felt the corner of his lips tugging into a faint grin as the orange head brought her head up from the ground to glare at the blond.


"I must say that you're quite skilled with your guns, Kyoko-chan. But too bad~ it's just not enough to beat me I guess." The blond sang before she bent down and grabbed a handful of her orange locks, the orangenette winched but refused to scream at the pain.

"It's over...princessa." Maria muttered darkly as she gaze straight at the other's wavering honey browns. Kyoko tightened her hold on her weapon as the blond's words registered in her mind.

Is it...really over? Am I really just a burden to everyone? To...Tsu-kun?

"Kyoko-chan!"

The orange head heard Chrome and Haru's screams with her blurry vision, they kept on screaming her name, calling her to stood up, the tears that kept on running down from their eyes… she was so sorry to make them cry… but she knew she would never be able to won against Maria… who is a well-trained Mafioso… unlike her.

"Kyoko." She flinched when she heard Reborn called her in a stern tone. "Did you forget what you came her for? Why do you train so hard all these years?"

Her honey brown orbs widened as she remember all those years she had been training so hard and remembered why she had abandon her peaceful life...it was all for Tsu-kun... the man she love... she wanted to protect him, she doesn't want to be an burden, she want to be more than just an emotional support for him, she want to be there with her onii-san when he is fighting, she wanted to help them but most of all... she loved her family... her wonderful, strong family... the Vongola. That's why... even if she had to sacrifice herself for her family, her friends and her most beloved lover... she still want to protect them no matter what.

"I… I…" she is struggling to get her injured body up as she ignores all the pains that run through her body. The pescha mafioso jumped back as she noticed that there was something different with the orange head. She narrowed her yellow orbs at Kyoko.

"I don't want to be a burden for Tsu-kun… onii-san… and the others… I…" suddenly, she balled her hands into fists as she gritted her teeth, finally able to stand up steadily in front of the other Mafioso.

"I WANT TO PROTECT MY MOST IMPORTANT FAMILY AND TSU-KUN!" she yelled out with all she could and all of a sudden, the ring around her finger and the necklace she was wearing flickered a purple and yellow flames on each of them.

The tears that ran down on Chrome and Haru's eyes stopped as they looked at Kyoko in shock when she lit up the mist and sun rings she was wearing. Reborn smirked to himself. He knew it was a good decision to let Kyoko wear them.


This morning

"Kyoko, do you want to become even stronger?" he asked the girl as she sat nervously in front of him. She looked at him and bit her lips, nodding her head to answer his question. The ex-arcobaleno smirked as he pulled out a small box from his jacket and handed it to the soon-to-be wife of his dame-student.

"W-what is this, Reborn-kun?" the orange head asked as she open the small box, only to have her eyes widen when she saw an A-class sun and mist ring in it.

"R-Reborn-kun, what is the meaning of this?"

"Kyoko, you need them to help you protect Dame-Tsuna and the others. The time will come when these rings will be of use to you." The demon tutor smirked as he looked at the orange head.


Tsuna stared in disbelief when he saw his lover lit up the two Vongola A-class mist and sun rings with flames of high purity. He never knew she was able to light them up. When he finally recovered from the shock, he looked at the screen as a proud smile formed on his lips.

"You finally found your resolve...Kyoko."


BANG!

Maria clicked her tongue as she managed to jump back on the last second, the bullet grazing her cheek and leaving a trail of crimson down to her chin. The blond narrowed her eyes as she watched the orange head stood up, the bruises and cuts on her skin glowing with yellow flames as it slowly healed her wounds. But that's not the only thing that surprised her, it was that her two dark weapons was now surrounded by yellow flames. There were also two other guns with a pure white color that slowly formed and floated around her, both coated with an indigo flame and a vongola crest clearly engraved on its' body. She then noticed the mist ring around her neck glowing brighter.

"Even if you bring out a hundred of guns, they're just illusions princessa!"

The blond roared as she picked up the fan beside her feet and prepared herself to attack the orange head with both lightning flames activated on her weapons. Kyoko focused her caramels at her target and raised both of her black guns.

"Attivazione di Soreno." She whispered before firing the bullets coated with the same yellow flame. (Activation of the Sun)

The blond was about to block the bullets with her fan as she did before but her eyes widened when the bullets met with her weapons. It was stronger and more powerful. The pescha mafioso was pushed back by the bullet. Maria was too shocked from the sudden change of her enemy to notice that the orangenette was infront of her in a flash, the black weapons were replaced by the white ones.

"Costruzione di Nebbia" (Construction of the Mist) Kyoko muttered before she aimed both of her guns at the blond at close range. The blond continued to block her attacks and noticed the purple covered bullets. Maria watched as it went straight through her, it was an illusion, just as she suspected. She didn't bother to dodge the next coming to her hand. How wrong she was when a burning pain shot up from her hand the next moment. Kyoko continued to fired her guns faster as the blond found it hard to differentiate between the illusion bullets and the real ones.

"Not bad, princessa! I can finally use all my power after such a long time!" The blond grinned amusedly as she continued to attack her, enjoying the fight with the orange head and not caring about the cuts forming on her skin from the bullets.

"I'm sorry, Maria-san." Kyoko muttered and the pescha mafioso merely blinked in return. "My family and Tsu-kun...they're waiting for me."

"But I promised to spar with you anytime if you come over to the Vongola mansion."

Kyoko looked up and smiled warmly at the blond which caught her opponent off guard. The orangenette took a step back, distancing herself form the blond before breathing in a deep breath. She opened her eyes, caramels filled with determination as she raised both hands and fired her guns before switching it simultaneously with the white ones and repeating the same pattern over and over again. Maria gasped as she frantically tried to block off the bullets showering at her but failed when she realized that it was too fast for her. The bullets finally hit her shoulders and legs, her spiked fans dropping to the floor as her body followed soon after. The blond head a 'click!' sound of the gun and she snapped her eyes shut, preparing for the final attack from the orange head. A loud 'bang!' reverberate in the mansion but...she didn't feel any pain from the bullet that hit her straight to her chest. Instead...it felt warm.

The blond widened her eyes when she realize that the orange head had shot her with a bullet coated with the sun flame but this time, she had used the other attribute of healing on her instead. The pescha mafioso's wounds started to patch up slowly.

"You should be able to move in an hour or so." Kyoko explained before the two illusion guns disappeared along with her flame and she turned away from her defeated opponent.

"W-Why?!" The blond screamed out and Kyoko stopped on her tracks. "Why didn't you kill me?! You won!"

Kyoko sighed before turning back to her and kneel next to her.

"You did nothing wrong." She said plainly, and the blonde widened her eyes in shock.

"W-what?" She chocked out.

"Your hands were shaking while we're fighting... I know that there must be something in your past that causes your family to try and force Tsu-kun to marry you."

Maria was shocked and her yellow orbs brimmed with tears. A soft smile slowly forming on her lips as she spoke. "I-I've completely lost...Now I know why he chooses you."

Kyoko raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"

"I confessed to him months before and you know what he said?" Kyoko only blinked in return.

"'I only need one sun in my life and that's Kyoko-chan.'" The blond breathed out and a grin formed on her face as the orangenette blushed a deep shade of red.

"He apologized to me but I was kind of curious after hearing him say that..." Maria said with a 'hmph!' as she pouted.

Kyoko smiled slightly towards the blond. "Maria-san, I'd be happy if you're willing to be my friend in the future."

"W-Wha? W-Who would ever want to be your friend?" the blond felt heat creeping up her cheeks as she turned her head away. Kyoko giggled when suddenly, the wall next to her crashed down with a loud 'BAM!'

"You pineapple herbivore! Stop getting on my way while I'm fighting!" a figure said in annoyance as another figure with pineapple head walked next to him pointed his long trident towards the skylark.

"Who do you think you are to stop me? And you're the one who gets in my way, not me!" the other growled and Kyoko sighed in relief as she saw the two guardians safe and without a single scratch on them.


"KYOKO WON THE FIGHT!" everyone cheered as Ryohei shouted 'extreme!' with tears running down his face, happy that his sister had grown so strong and that she was safe now. Calvo fumed as he started to panic when he saw his daughter defeated on the gound. Tsuna slowly stood up from the floor and prepared himself to go to his drying will mode and get those stupid cuffs off him and the others. Calvo immediately stood up from his seat when a dark figure with a black cloak and hood covering his face appeared out of nowhere as if on cue. He panicked and yelled to the person who'd just appeared in the room and also his right-hand man.

"Quick! We're leaving as fast as we co-"

But before his words were finished, the doors crashed down, showing off the world's greatest hitman who smirked while blowing the smoke on his gun away. The others, along with the girls who hold onto Kyoko with bruises on her, walked in as the orange head had a bright smile on her face.

"Tsu-kun...you're safe." Kyoko whispered as beads of tears slipped down her cheeks.

"KYOKO!" Tsuna shouted in delight when he saw his fiancée.


To be continued.


Author Note(Alice): Uwaah, this chapter turned out longer than I thought! O_O Anyways, please tell us on what you think of the story this time and also cause I never really write fighting scenes in detail before...Hope you enjoyed this chapter and look forward to 6996 moments in the next chapter! x)

Ending note: The 6996 moments are a bit little in here… but you know what? I promised before that I'll write more 6996 moments after 2 more chapters, right? Now the fight of Kyoko is finished, the next chapter WILL have some very dramatic 6996 moments… and surprises are awaiting you! ;) Try guessing which villain is going to appear up next! I'm sure you won't be able to guess it… (or maybe you will?) Oh, and there's this poll I put on my profile about which story you want me to write after finishing 'Never Again'. I also put a new one called 'Protect You' in it, you can vote it in the poll or vote it in your reviews! That's all! 'till next time! ;)